Quote Originally Posted by it-ogo View Post
No ideas why Czechs decided to use j for "short i" consonant sound. Poles apparently did that because they use letter "y" for another sound, which is equivalent to Russian "Ы".
Yes! I know this because one of my good friends is Polish. I can actually understand some Polish and she can understand some Czech. I think it is a similar language... being neighbors and all it is kind of understandable. I met a lady at work and she was Croatian and she understoons some Czech and Polish too.